Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountfin Lower Or Ballinturner, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountfin Lower Or Ballinturner
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59334, -6.58890
- SMR number
- WX015-062----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on an E-facing slope of the N-S River Slaney valley. The cropmark of circular area defined by two fosse features (int. diam. c. 38m, ext. diam. c. 55m) with an entrance through both fosse features at the S is visible on aerial photographs (MM (55) 14-19). It is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018).
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 May, 2012
Amended: 23 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.